Freewriting for the Academic Writer
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This presentation formed session one of the student conference entitled 'Academic Writing Made Easier' which was held at London Metropolitan University on March 16 2009.
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Shitty First Drafts
Anne Lamott from Bird by Bird
Born in San Francisco in 1954, Anne Lamott is a graduate of Goucher College
in Baltimore and is the author of six novels, including Rosie (1983), Crooked Little
Heart (1997), All New People (2000), and Blue Shoes (2002). She has also been the
food reviewer for California magazine, a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, and a
regular contributor to Salon’s “Mothers Who Think.” Her nonfiction books include
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (1993), in which she
describes her adventures as a single parent, and Tender Mercies: Some Thoughts on
Faith (1999), in which she charts her journey toward faith in God.
In the following selection, taken from Lamott’s popular book about writing,
Bird by Bird (1994), she argues for the need to let go and write those “shitty first
drafts” that lead to clarity and sometimes brilliance in our second and third drafts.
1 Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of
shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good
second drafts and terrific third drafts. People tend to look at successful writers who
are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially and think
that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling
great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they
have to tell; that they take in a few deep breaths, push back their sleeves, roll their
necks a few times to get all the cricks out, and dive in, typing fully formed passages
as fast as a court reporter. But this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated. I know some
very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal
of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and
confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but
we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that
God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest
friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)
2 Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it. Nor do
they go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled. They do not type a few stiff
warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like huskies across the
snow. One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to
himself nicely, "It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do -- you can
either type, or kill yourself." We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those
writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and
sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time. Now,
Muriel Spark is said to have fel.
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Freewriting for the Academic Writer
- 1. Freewriting for the Academic Writer Lynn Reynolds, Nora Ausfeld, Paul McNaught, Anna Molla The Writing Centre, London Metropolitan University
- 6. "The easiest thing to do on earth is not write."
- 7. Too much motivation: Calming anxiety
- 8. Getting ahead of your inner critic
- 14. Ignorance
- 15. Knowledge
- 19. Freewriting to get closer to your subject
- 20. It seems that writers block is a mysterious phenomenon . I've heard it said that it's fashionable to deny the existence of block, which I suppose is tantamount to saying that block is the result of a poor work ethic, a lack of ideas or just general absence of moral fibre. But thinking on, it has affected many excellent writers who had produced a lot of work and who had an excellent writing track record. I'm thinking that famous passage from New Grub Street, or...oh sod it, can't remember what else. When I think of block I always think of Janet frame, who, when she was released from her awful time in psychiatric hospital, was mentored by a writer who gave her a shed in the garden to write. She found that she couldn't write, when she'd been hitherto prolific. So she just did typing exercises for weeks , basically so that her hosts would hear her typing and she wouldn't be shamed by the fact that she actually wasn't writing anything! But, guess what, gradually words came out and her stories took shape. This seems to suggest a relationship between repression and oppression. There's something about oppression which liberates, and perhaps when it is absent repression takes its place – we oppress ourselves. This is reminding me of Isaiah berlin's two kinds of freedom , positive and negative. Positive freedom is the absence of oppression, but negative freedom is all about freeing us up to choose what is good for us and not merely what gratifies our worldly urges. So, I want to write the excellent work of scholarship I know is deep within me but I keep going to the pub instead. If my mates were to lock me in my bedroom – ha, like in I Capture the castle – with only a pen and some paper, then I would surely remain undistracted and my excellent thoughts would have no choice but to be expressed. If only. One other thought about block is that it might be sort of like garbage in garbage out – perhaps we are receivers first and creators second and can't hope to produce anything good or even anything at all unless we are nourishing ourselves with the work of other writers and thikers. Freewriting as a Basis for Further Research: 1
- 22. Freewriting to produce that all important first draft
- 24. Finding your own path